Boy
Genius Report has
reportedly been gifted with a treasure
trove of roadmap leaks from a trusted source at Verizon.
The leaks read like a mobile user's wish list.

First up, it
describes a new Android handset called the Motorola DROID Pro -- a
successor toDroidX and
the soon-to-be-released Droid
2. The Droid Pro reportedly will pack a smoking 1.3GHz CPU
and "global roaming", alongside a more pedestrian 4-inch
screen (in comparison to the 4.3-inch monster screen of the EVO, at
least).

By "global roaming", Verizon likely means
that the phone will pack both GSM and CDMA reception equipment.
While Verizon's U.S. network uses CDMA -- thus making CDMA the
prevalent standard in the U.S. -- worldwide GSM owns 80 percent of
the global market share. Thus standard CDMA handsets are a poor
choice currently for a great deal of international business
travelers.

Samsung and HTC will both reportedly launch their
own new Android-driven global roaming capable handsets on Verizon, as
well.

The leak also shows off a wealth of incoming
tablets/slabs set to challenge the iPad for dominance. The
first listed was a Motorola Q look-alike/"slab form-factor"
device running Android 2.2 and offering global roaming. Samsung
looks to counter, with its own upcoming 7-inch Android-driven
touchscreen device which sports a front facing camera, to
boot.

But Motorola has its own counterattack
lurking -- a tablet packing a 10-inch screen, 1GHz or 1.3GHz CPU,
front-facing camera, and Android
3.0. That beast will launch either late in the holiday
season or early next year, with the date likely contingent on Android
3.0's release schedule.

Rounding out the leak is a bunch of
detail on the company's Long-Term
Evolution (LTE) plans. Verizon writes that it hopes to
cover 75 percent of the United States with the 4G technology by April
2012. It will launch a Novatel LTE MiFi device in January or
February corresponding with its early phases of deployment. The
device will support up to 10 simultaneous users and will reportedly
stick to the current $59.99 USD/month pricing for the company's data
cards (no word on what the usage cap will be, though).

Regardless
of the Big
Red's iPhone plans, it's clear that the largest wireless carrier
in the U.S. is heavily betting
on Android as the jack-of-all trades to dominate the wireless
industry in months to come. Android already
has passed RIM and the Apple in the U.S., and is predicted
to pass Apple worldwide by 2012.